Diplomacy of the Holy See in the process of de-isolation of Cuba by Ivan Danyliuk

“…The Cuban breakthrough testified that even today in the XXI-st century, the «soft power» of the Vatican diplomacy See and the Pope of the Catholic Church are able to engage the conflicting parties in dialogue, to promote mutual understanding, tolerance, peaceful coexistence, international cooperation and security.…”
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Language as an object of interdisciplinary research: methodological aspects in the context of development trends of political and legal spheres in modern conditions by Natalya Zhuk

“…Special attention is paid to the study of the main regularities of the influence of the globalization factor on the linguistic space of the world in the context of the problems of violation of the "linguistic balance of languages" and the use of language as a tool of "soft power". It was found that legal linguistics, political linguistics and sociolinguistics are key subdisciplines in the linguistic field in the political and legal context. …”
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Sports resources utilization efficiency, productivity change, and regional production technology heterogeneity in Chinese Provinces: DEA-SBM and Malmquist Index Approaches by Hanzhong Zhang, Youkuan Shi, Xuetao Jiang, Xiaowei Xu, Wasi Ul Hassan Shah

“…This initiative aims to foster sports talent, facilitate excellence, host major sporting events, and enhance national pride and soft power. This study employs a comprehensive methodology encompassing Data Envelopment Analysis-Slack Based Measure (DEA-SBM), Meta Frontier Analysis, and Malmquist Productivity Index to assess Sports Resource Utilization Efficiency (SRUE), Technological Gap Ratio (TGR), and Productivity Growth (MI) across China’s 31 provinces and 3 distinct regions for the period 2010–2021. …”
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La sécurité sanitaire globale et la coopération internationale dans la lutte contre la Covid-19 by KAMBALE KAVUNGA, Jonathan KAVUNGA LUKOO

“…A contrario, la Covid-19 s’est rapidement hissée au rang d’enjeu de diplomatie internationale à cause de la lutte pour le « soft power » autour du contrôle de la santé du monde. …”
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The strategy of Spain in the United Nations by I. L. Prokhorenko

“…The economic and foreign policy potential of this country weakening its competitive advantages under the influence of negative consequences of the global financial and economic crisis do not raise an issue about permanent membership of Spain in the UN Security Council. However, the ‘soft power’ resources based on its postimperial identity allow for a fairly high appreciation of possibilities of Spain with regard to monitoring, prevention and management of conflicts and crisis situations in developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, providing international assistance for development and facilitating intercultural dialogue of the Western and non-Western civilazations.…”
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CHALLENGES IN TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS by Nagy Sandor

“…Furthermore, they were also reporting that Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain are facing severe problems. Using such soft power instruments, people all around the world started to believe that the European currency is not stable and it is rather unreasonable to keep it. …”
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Media diplomacy in public administration: analysis of the effectiveness of Ukrainian national branding by Volodymyr Shypovskyi

“…Public diplomacy is the realization of the soft power of the country in the international arena, the promotion of the interests of the state in the world by mobilizing the support of the foreign community. …”
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CHINESE 2017 BRICS PRESIDENCY: EXPANDING COOPERATION HORIZONS by Elizaveta Andreyevna Safonkina

“…To expand its influence at the international scene China actively uses soft power mechanisms. Its BRICS presidency was not an exception. …”
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External Relations of Russian Border Regions by L. R. Rustamova

“…Regions also have the potential to build up Russia’s “soft power.” Although cross-border cooperation implies some costs, which the federal authorities try to reduce through legal regulation, it is still widely supported by federal governments.…”
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Materialne i niematerialne dziedzictwo Europy Środkowej w praktykach Międzynarodowego Centrum Kultury w Krakowie by Barbara Weżgowiec

“…Pełni ono funkcję zarówno muzeum, jak i placówki edukacyjno-naukowej oraz dyplomatycznej – dbając (w myśl polityki „soft power”) o budowanie dobrosąsiedzkich relacji między Polską i innymi państwami z tej części kontynentu. …”
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“Italy System” as a Case of Innovative Economic Diplomacy by R. O. Raynkhardt

“…Finally, a special emphasis is put on the tight link between instruments of "soft power" and economic diplomacy and their institutional usage, which has deep historical roots.…”
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ABDULLAH BADAWI’S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS CHINA: THREE-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF A PRAGMATIC AND IDEALISTIC DIPLOMACY STRATEGY IN A TWO-WAY COOPERATION by Mohamad Ikhram Mohamad Ridzuan, Marfunizah Ma'dan

“…The research also found that although Abdullah Badawi was seen as a relatively weak leader in domestic politics, he made a significant impact on the continuity of Malaysia’s national interest, particularly in the soft power competition between the USA and China in Southeast Asia. …”
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The use of Latin and the European republic of letters: Change and continuity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Per Pippin Aspaas

“…Escaping the famous definition of a language as ‘a dialect with an army and a navy’, Latinity proved capable of persisting by means of ‘soft power’ alone. The processes which led to the end of this state of affairs were not one and the same. …”
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Observational Characteristics of Radiation-mediated Shocks in Photospheric Gamma-Ray Burst Emission by Filip Samuelsson, Felix Ryde

“…Within this framework, we find that if the free fireball acceleration starts at r _0 ∼ 10 ^10 cm, in agreement with hydrodynamical simulations, then the typical spectrum consists of a broad, soft power-law segment with a cutoff at high energies and a hardening in X-rays. …”
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FROM OPTIMISM TO DISAPPOINTMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WEST by E. V. Volgina

“…Vivekananda spent years in America and Europe, establishing contacts and promoting Indian culture. He used it as a “soft power” to draw attention of the West to the national liberation struggle just starting to unfold in India. …”
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American cinema impact on the formation, reflection and dissemination of national stereotypes by A. Kuzembayeva, A. Aussadyk, D. Sarsekbay

“…Keywords: stereotypes, Hollywood, soft power, American cinema, racism, prejudice, international image, national representation, national depiction, discrimination, Asian stereotypes, Black people stereotypes, Muslim stereotypes. …”
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The role of vectors in the development of national mural designs as an input to promote The spirit of the Egyptian national identity and the values of belonging within the framewor... by Enas abd el raouf okka

“…The importance of this aspect appears especially in the recent times in light of the increasing developmental and knowledge role of the creative and cultural industries at the global level, and it means the cultural works directed to the masses, which are produced by the method of mass production, which is one of the concepts closely related to modernization and the era of the industrial revolution, and the state’s strategy has been given For sustainable development (Egypt Vision 2030), there is a clear interest in these industries as a source of strength for the economy, making them a basis for Egypt’s soft power regionally and internationally.The research in this context designs and analyzes a number of digital murals that display the stories of a group of heroes and national symbols who influenced the history of the Egyptian military, and wrote the highest meanings of honor and heroism. …”
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NATO’s Southern Flank: The Evolution of Türkiye’s Strategic Role and Its Implications for Regional Security by Birol Akduman

“…Within this context, the article analyzes Türkiye's evolving strategic role, including its military capabilities and growing defense industry, diplomacy, and soft power initiatives, as well as its efforts to balance relations with NATO, Russia, and other regional actors. …”
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Improvement of Core Competitiveness of Chinese Construction Enterprises Against the Background of High-Quality Development by Lu Chunfang, Wu Jun, Wang Mengjun, Li Xinsheng, Liu Bo, Liang Chao, Hu Xiaodong

“…Moreover, construction enterprises should improve the quality of human resource management, promote scientific and technological innovation, create brand soft power, integrate high-quality resources of the industrial chain, and promote core business advantages. …”
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US Public Diplomacy Towards the Central Asian Countries by Elena Parubochaya

“…The work uses a systematic approach in order to form a holistic view of American public diplomacy as an instrument of “soft power.” To identify the individual tools used by the United States in promoting public diplomacy in each individual Central Asian country, a comparative method was used. …”
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